Category: Local News
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New JCFS office manager Mara Pellettieri has strong ties to our Jewish community
By MYRON LOVE For Mara Pellettieri, the Jewish Child and Family Service’s new office manager, community has always been of prime importance. One...
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Community leader Heather Leonoff receives prestigious Law Society award
By MYRON LOVE Heather Leonoff is this year’s recipient of the Law Society of Manitoba’s Richard J. Scott award.“I am honoured,” says the...
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CJOB sports guy Cameron Poitras living the dream
By MYRON LOVE Ten years ago or so, Cameron Poitras was at loose ends. He had just dropped out of university and, as...
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Jewish Federation AGM: Record year both for revenues and expenditures – fuelled by one-time contributions in aid of Covid relief
By BERNIE BELLAN For the second year in a row the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg held its Annual General Meeting online. This year’s meeting,...
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Lessons in Fusion” speaks to the fluidity of Jewish identity in the contemporary world
Reviewed by BERNIE BELLAN In preparing to write this review I searched our archives to see whether we had ever published anything previously...
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Winnipeg-born writer Sidura Ludwig receives 2021 Vine Award for new collection of short stories
By MYRON LOVE You could rightly say that Sidura Ludwig is “over the moon” about being named the winner of the 2021 Vine...
